Daily Archives: July 13, 2018

Ryan Mayer MLB teams have already passed the midway point of the season in terms of games played. However, next week, when teams take a few days off for the All-Star Break, will mark the unofficial halfway point. With the Midsummer Classic scheduled for next Tuesday, July 17th, it’s a good time to look back on the season to date, ...

(CNN) — An investigation continues into what has caused hundreds of visitors to a Tennessee zipline destination to suddenly develop gastrointestinal illness. More than 500 people have reported symptoms including stomachache, nausea and vomiting after visiting the CLIMB Works Zipline Canopy Tour in Gatlinburg. The Tennessee Department of Health announced Thursday that officials are continuing to look for the cause ...

Monica Morgan-Holiefield (Facebook photo)
It’s federal prison for Monica Morgan-Holiefield, reports Robert Snell at the Detroit News. The widow of United Auto Workers Vice President General Holiefield drew an 18-month sentence for filing a false tax return, in connection with her role in diverting money from a training fund maintained by the UAW and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles.
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COLUMBUS (AP) — It was no secret that a team doctor now being investigated for sexually abusing male athletes decades ago at Ohio State University liked to linger in the showers alongside those athletes. But he wasn’t the only one leering at young men inside the campus recreation center where many teams practiced and university employees exercised. Wrestlers from that ...

ATLANTA (AP) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says a popular Kellogg’s cereal has been linked to a salmonella outbreak that has infected 100 people in 33 states. The CDC announced Thursday that customers should avoid Honey Smacks, tweeting, “Do not eat this cereal.” The agency says it found salmonella in samples of Honey Smacks, which has been subject to ...

This charcuterie board costs $22 at Empire Kitchen & Cocktails. (Facebook photos)
It’s rare to see such a blisteringly harsh review of a restaurant poping up in Midtown or downtown Detroit
Corned beef hash ($13) is served at weekend brunch.
But Mark Kurlyandchik of the Detroit Free Press filets Empire Kitchen & Cocktails on Woodward in ...

Hundreds of Toys R’ Us stores closed in the United States in 2018, one of the most high-profile casualties of the so-called “retail apocalypse.” Now the question is which retailers will replace all those empty stores left behind by the once iconic toy chain. According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, Hobby Lobby is a big player in ...

The Internet opens endless opportunities for shameful behavior. In this case, Demetrius Barry was sentenced Thursday in Oakland County Circuit Court to six days in jail for convincing a Troy woman with Downs Syndrome to send him nude pictures online, Hilary Golston of Fox 2 reports.
Dawn and Mark Hayes say their daughter functions intellectually and emotionally ...

Ryan Mayer Houston Texans defensive end J.J. Watt was named the NFL’s 2017 Walter Payton award winner for his charitable efforts off the field after Hurricane Harvey devastated the Houston area last fall. Watt has continued his community outreach, recently donating $10,000 to the family of a Wisconsin firefighter who was killed in an explosion. Cody Barr, a captain in ...